I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 85

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“It’s simple.”

The man raised a finger as he spoke.

“Just one year.”

“One year?”

“Cooperate with us for just one year.”

“…What are you plotting?”

He would have liked to make Seonghyun completely their own if he could.

“Why one year? Is there a specific reason for setting a time limit?”

“As the person involved, you know best, but there are more people watching you than you can imagine.”

“Does that mean…one year is the limit you can handle?”

“…Yes.”

Seonghyun grasped the full extent of his opponent’s capabilities from their conversation.

He had sensed it a little from the fact that they were of similar age, but it seemed they couldn’t withstand pressure from other countries.

‘At best, they’re only famous within their own country.’

“What if I refuse?”

“If you refuse, I won’t stop you. However…”

The man pressed the knife against Inhwan’s neck harder.

It didn’t cut, but the skin pressed by the blade was visibly dented, so it would definitely cut if he applied a little more force.

“…How cruel. You’re on the same team, yet you don’t even flinch in this situation.”

Seonghyun knew from the start.

The man before him couldn’t kill anyone.

No, not just kill, but he couldn’t even inflict an injury.

“Interesting. Is the representative of the Chinese Academy allowed to do this?”

“…So you knew.”

“How could the same representative not know? If you lay a hand on him, you’ll be disqualified. Do you have the guts?”

At Seonghyun’s words, the man scoffed and replied.

“Ha! Don’t provoke me. Remember where you are.”

“Then I’ll rephrase the question. Can you even kill someone?”

At Seonghyun’s continued provocation, the man pressed the knife against Inhwan’s neck even harder, as if to prove he wasn’t lying.

Eventually, red blood began to flow from the skin that couldn’t withstand the blade.

“Last warning. Choose.”

Seonghyun sighed deeply and approached the man.

Slowly. As if telling him to watch him approach.

“I clearly warned…”

“Let me ask you one thing. Do you think a dead person can’t be saved?”

“…What?”

At Seonghyun’s words, the man momentarily wore a dumbfounded expression.

Then, he looked back and forth between Inhwan and Seonghyun.

“This time, I’ll give you the choice. Are you going to kill my friend, or save him?”

“…”

The man stared straight into Seonghyun’s eyes.

Eyes that showed no lies.

Eyes that showed confidence that even if he tore Inhwan, who was bleeding from the neck, to pieces and killed him, he could revive him as if nothing had happened.

In the moment the man was lost in thought, Seonghyun threw one of the daggers he had prepared before coming to the building towards the man’s secretary.

“Kyaa!”

The dagger flew accurately at the secretary’s arm, which was aiming at Sangyeon’s neck.

Not the blade, but the handle.

However, because the speed was so great, the pain as if hit by the blade was transmitted to the secretary’s hand.

Following that, the sword he was holding fell to the floor with a clatter.

“What is this…!”

The man tried to make a move, but he couldn’t do anything and collapsed to the floor due to the tremendous pain he felt in an instant.

“Are you alright!”

As soon as the man collapsed, people appeared from the ceiling of the room, and rifts appeared in the air, and others began to appear.

“Catch him!”

And in that brief moment, Seonghyun used Purification [an ability that removes impurities or negative effects] on Inhwan and Sangyeon.

Until now, even if he used Healing, the person who had lost consciousness did not wake up, but he wondered if Purification was possible.

“Wake up!”

As Seonghyun expected, Inhwan and Sangyeon woke up at the same time, and seemed to have finished grasping the situation in that short time.

“Inhwan! Fire! Make fire!”

“…Fire?”

He didn’t know why he was being told to use his ability, but thanks to Purification, his body, which hadn’t been working, was back to normal, so Inhwan used his ability right away.

A brief blue flame flickered, but he couldn’t maintain it for long, probably because he had been restrained for quite some time and was very exhausted.

“Kuh…I’ve reached my limit…”

Thanks to that, those who were rushing at Seonghyun and Inhwan stopped moving for a moment.

“That’s enough!”

“Just keep them alive…”

Sangyeon, who was blocking the people rushing at Seonghyun and Inhwan, also looked up thanks to a drop of water that fell on the bridge of his nose for a moment.

The others were the same.

“…Water?”

Those who were looking up for a moment all started screaming at the same time.

“Kkyaaaa!”

If someone who didn’t know anything saw it, the screams were so terrible that they might think some kind of poison gas had been released in this room.

Of course, Inhwan and Sangyeon were included.

It was true that they had also been hit by the water.

While everyone was struggling in pain, Seonghyun approached Inhwan and Sangyeon and sprinkled something on their bodies.

Potions that materialized Healing ability.

And he used Purification again right away.

“Ugh…what is this…”

“Heo…it’s too painful…”

Both of them gasped for breath and were clearly affected by the unforgettable pain they had just experienced.

“It’s my ability. Are you okay now?”

Thanks to Purification, the pain was completely washed away, and the two sighed in relief.

“Can you move?”

“Honestly, I can, but I don’t think I can fight.”

“That’s…the same for me.”

“It’s okay. It doesn’t matter. Let’s go now.”

As he was about to leave the room supporting the two of them, a voice was heard from behind.

“Wh, where…Kkeuk! Ar…e you…”

“Why don’t you take care of your own body properly?”

“You’ll regret it…Keuk!”

As he was about to leave the room, leaving the man who couldn’t even finish his words behind, the door reopened.

“What’s going on…What is this…”

“Are you alright!”

“Catch these bastards!”

There weren’t just one or two.

A number that seemed to be at least 10 people.

Seongheun was already using it on the man behind him, so he couldn’t use it again, and Seonghyun had to protect Inhwan and Sangyeon, so he had no choice but to use his ability.

‘Summon.’

“Su, Summoner?”

“Didn’t you say he was a Healer?”

“Or are there other people?”

Even if he looked around, there was no one who could be called Seonghyun’s helper.

“Could it be that the Healer even has Summoning abilities…!”

“Lo, look over there!”

The person a man pointed to was none other than Sangyeon.

The way he was holding something shining in his hand looked as if he had a very deep connection with a Summoned creature.

“Tsk! He had Summoning abilities. You guys aim for those two and the rest deal with the Healer!”

“Yes!”

Seonghyun put Inhwan and Sangyeon in the same place and ordered 1 [likely a summoned being].

‘Protect these two. Before me.’

1, who knew that Seonghyun was trying not to reveal that he was the owner of the ability, bowed his head to Sangyeon instead of Seonghyun, confirming the question of the current situation.

“Just keep them alive. Just keep them alive.”

“Yes!”

The one who seemed to be the leader and two men stood in front of Seonghyun, and everyone else stood in front of 1.

“Seeing the floor full of water…it seems like you escaped the crisis by luck, but it won’t work now.”

The leader had confident eyes.

How strong could a Healer be?

In addition, the level of the people in this room that he had dealt with by luck was probably no more or less than the Academy representative.

“Besides…if you’re the representative of Korea, that says it all. I wonder what the level is.”

“…”

He couldn’t understand the words, but the expression on his face was already looking at him like a bug.

“Do you…think I’m weak, so I dealt with these people here like this?”

It was a little absurd.

The level of those who had fallen in this room was only slightly better than the guards at the door.

It had only changed from a level that could be dealt with lightly in one hit to a level that could be dealt with in one hit with a little more force.

“If that’s the case, I think I’ll feel a little bad.”

There was a reason for dealing with them like this.

Because he had to participate in the Academy Competition.

He had used Seongheun, but the only target he had used it on was the man behind him who was still writhing in pain.

He could claim self-defense using the wound on Inhwan’s neck as an excuse.

“That’s it now. The competition or whatever.”

“What are you muttering to yourself…”

The leader rushed at him right away.

With an attack that would overwhelm Seonghyun just right, without endangering his life, according to the leader’s thinking.

“…!”

Seonghyun lightly dodged the attack flying towards his head to the side and immediately dug into the gap.

“Where do you think you’re…!”

But what Seonghyun dug into wasn’t the leader’s gap.

It was the gap of one of the subordinates next to him.

“Keuheok…”

He left a big wound, but not enough to die.

Of course, he could have killed him, but killing their own people in another country would be a huge problem.

Besides, it was China, so the difference would be quite significant.

“…You bastard…”

The leader immediately admitted that his judgment was wrong.

Seonghyun’s level was not something he could look down on.

“Some of them this way…”

It seemed impossible to subdue them without killing them, so he was about to call some of the people who were dealing with 1, but already 3 out of 7 were lying on the floor over there.

“Wh, what…”

He hadn’t fought a strong Hunter, and he was fighting a Summoned creature while protecting two injured people, but the unbelievable result came out.

“Fi, first deal with the Summoner! There’s no choice now that it’s come to this! Kill him!”

While the leader was dealing with Seonghyun alone, the rest were dealing with Sangyeon, who they thought was a Summoned creature.

But there was no way Seonghyun would just stand by and watch this.

In the first place, he had already dealt with the other one next to the leader while giving orders, so in the end, the situation hadn’t changed from the beginning.

It was just that the leader was dealing with Seonghyun alone, and the remaining 4 out of 7 were dealing with 1.

“You cowardly bastard…!”

“I don’t know what you’re saying, but I guess it’s a word admitting defeat?”

Seonghyun smiled lightly and rushed at the leader first.

“Keuek!”

The same attack that he had first launched at Seonghyun.

The path of the sword, the breathing, the place he was aiming for were all the same, but there were a few differences.

It was the speed and weight.

He barely managed to block the descending sword, but the moment he blocked that one sword, the leader could feel it.

‘I’m no match for him.’

At best, he could only block a few attacks.

Of course, with that level, it was questionable whether he could even inflict a little damage, let alone subdue Seonghyun.

“Is that all you were muttering about with just this much?”

Seonghyun said to the leader, who was kneeling on one knee under his power and receiving his sword with both hands.

“Think of it as fortunate that this is China.”

He couldn’t leave any loose ends, so he chose the most certain method.

A method that only he could solve right away.

“Kkyaaaa!”

The sound of the sword cutting flesh was heard, and blood began to gush from the leader’s wrist.

“At least you won’t be able to hold a sword while I’m here.”

He had just cut the tendons in both wrists of the leader.

Leaving the leader, who was trembling with both hands and collapsed, behind, he approached the man who was still suffering from Seongheun.